Characteristics of Perforated Appendicitis: Effect of Delay Is Confounded by Age and Gender

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1223-1231

  Augustin, Toms ^a   Cagir, Burt ^a   VanderMeer, Thomas J ^a  

^a GUTHRIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute appendicitis; Appendectomy; Delays; Operation; Perforated appendicitis; Timing; Waiting time

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; RUPTURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENNSYLVANIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958835943     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-011-1486-x     Document Type: Article

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